214470 - Compile a list of tips for final users

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Marketing :: General, task)

Description

[Percy Cabello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

This bug comes from bug 213763 call for tips and powertips to be featured in the
Mozilla newsletter. 

There is also a section for Tip of the Week. So everybody is encouraged to post
their tips either for consumer users (nothing on editing .js, or abut:config),
but mainly reminders or less known features or options, as well as PoweTips for
power users (feel free to mention .js, about:config, and all else) Suggestions
to manage bookmarks for example, moving a profile and so on. Please try to be
brief (80 words or less) and clear.

Post your tips and powertips to this bug, mentioning:
- which kind of tip it is tip/powertip
- for which Mozilla product and version (keep it to releases not builds) 
- if specific for a particular platform
- if you want your name and/or email to be included. No names or emails will be
included by default, unless explicitely stated


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Percy Cabello]

------- Additional Comment #4 From Daniel Wang  2003-07-29 17:37 -------

Tip of the Day: Google Keyword

You can use the Bookmark Keyword feature to create a shortcut to your
favorite search engine, for example, type "g mp3" in the Location
Bar to Google for mp3. To do this, first open the Bookmark Manager
(Ctrl+B). In the Bookmark Manager, make a new bookmark
(File > New > Bookmark). Set the Location to
"http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" and the Keyword to "g". Save the
bookmark, and now you can Google your way with the "g" keyword :-)

To use another site, do a dummy search for "MYSEARCH". Then copy the
address in the Location Bar and paste it to the New Bookmark dialog.
Replace the word "MYSEARCH" with "%s". Then set your keyword and you are
done!

Comment 2

[Percy Cabello]

PowerTip of the Day

Ever wonder what tab you are on? In the default classic theme, the tab bar can
be confusing because the active and non-active tabs look alike. You can make
sense of it by making title on the active tab bold. To do this, open a text
editor and type in the following:

  tab[selected="true"] { font-weight: bold;}
  tab { font-weight: normal; }

Save the file as userChrome.css in the chrome/ directory in your profile. (if
you don't know where, search your disk for a file called
"userChrome-example.css", and put userChrome.css in the same place as that
file.) Restart Mozilla for the setting to take effect.

-

The 1st tip is ~110 words and 2nd tip is ~100 words. Can you up the max word
count? (and yes, you can publish my name)

Comment 3

[Alex Bishop]

There's a bunch of tips at http://www.mozillatips.com/.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Huh, not sure how to use this thing...lets see what happens when I push...this
button...

- Extensions are your friends. Want a feature that you just can't seem to find
in Firebird? Check the Extensions Room or the official Firebird homepage for a
download list of extensions. Chances are, there will be something there which
will satisfy your needs.

- Switched themes and miss those little arrows beside the Back and Forward
buttons which, when clicked, gives you a list of the pages that you've recently
visited? Right clicking on the button yields the same result.

- Customize the interface by right clicking any of the buttons, or View menu >
Toolbars > Customize. From there on, its drag n drop.

- Still looking for functionality? Try a Bookmarklet. These scripts alter the
page, offering the ability to disable javascript on the fly, kill all annoying
Flash ad banners, zoom in and out of images, and much more.

- Hit F7 for caret browsing. This displays a cursor on the webpage, and allows
easier and more precise selection of text.

- Hit F11 for full screen mode, if you're gonna take in a large image in all its
glory.

- Put yourself in control of your browsing experience, Tools > Options > Web
Features > Advanced. Decide what you want to let a website do with its scripts.

- Tired of banner ads? Try an adblocking CSS. There is one on the official
Firebird homepage, along with instructions on its usage. It makes 99% of all
banner advertisements disappear. 

- 

Comment 5

[irongut]

There's a project on mozdev to add tips of the day to Mozilla and Firebird. I
think this project should work with that one. See: http://tipbar.mozdev.org/

Comment 6

[Percy Cabello]

Good reference. Thanks! I'll see what oportunities we have with this.

Comment 7

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

most of you know about this site, I'm just adding this here for reference:

http://texturizer.net/firebird/tips.html
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/tips.html

Comment 8

[irongut]

Mozilla Links newsletter compiles tips for end users:
http://newsletter.mozdev.org/

FIXED